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Author: Merard St. Just, Simon-Pierre
Title: Fables et Contes Mis en Vers
Place Published: Parme
Publisher:L’Imprimerie de Bodoni
Date Published: 1792
Description:

Two vols. 144; 168pp.8vo. Both volumes with previous owners names on verso of front free endpapers. Quarter leather binding, marbled boards, with gilt accents and lettering to spine, signed by Lebrun, decorative endpapers. Edition limited to 25 copies, and 25 copies “enpapiervelin”, so stated on the title-page of each volume.

An excessively rare collection of fables byMerardfrom the great fabulists, not noted by Brooks or De Lama, no copy listed inOCLC,COPACor any other online resource, no copy ever sold at auction. Brunet 1642 describes various versions of this printing, concluding that they all may be variations of the same edition. One wonders ifBodonireally had anything to do with this book. However, any and all printings seem to be of great rarity.Breslauerhad a copy of the author’s works, bound with thecatalogueof his library.

Some soiling to covers and mild discoloration to edges of first few pages of both volumes. Tightly bound, internally very clean and crisp. Volume two with repairs done to the paper of the bottom corner of the initial half-title page; very good.